provision
verb/prəˈvɪʒn/
/prəˈvɪʒn/
[often passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they provision | /prəˈvɪʒn/ /prəˈvɪʒn/ |
| he / she / it provisions | /prəˈvɪʒnz/ /prəˈvɪʒnz/ |
| past simple provisioned | /prəˈvɪʒnd/ /prəˈvɪʒnd/ |
| past participle provisioned | /prəˈvɪʒnd/ /prəˈvɪʒnd/ |
| -ing form provisioning | /prəˈvɪʒnɪŋ/ /prəˈvɪʒnɪŋ/ |
- provision somebody/something (with something) to supply somebody/something with enough of something, especially food, to last for a particular period of time
- The main business of the port is to provision passing ocean liners.
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘foresight’): via Old French from Latin provisio(n-), from providere ‘foresee, attend to’, from pro- ‘before’ + videre ‘to see’. The verb dates from the early 19th cent.
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